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IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Return of the slumlords
In the fifth part of his features mini-series GLYN ROBBINS examines how decades of underinvestment in council homes has led to a massive rise in private renting
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
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The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP
In 1918, 90 per cent of the UK population were private tenants, but the squalid legacy of the Victorian industrial city was not "fit for heroes."
The 1919 Addison Act encouraged councils to build more homes and with the spectre of Bolshevism haunting the ruling class, the country began a 60-year rejection of slumlords.
By the 1960s private renting had fallen by two-thirds and by the '80s it was only 10 per cent of the housing stock, where it hovered for the next two decades.
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